BEIJING – China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
“We will not accept such an origins-tracing plan as it, in some aspects, disregards common sense and defies science,” Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the National Health Commission, told reporters.
Zeng said he was taken aback when he first read the WHO plan, because it lists the hypothesis that a Chinese violation of laboratory protocols had caused the virus to leak during research.(Reuters)
